Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Al Rob, we were able to
Speaker 2: get that number two representative Frost. Correct. Okay, Linda, you
Speaker 2: should get a call on Monday and they will try
Speaker 2: to get you in touch with your state representative. The
Speaker 2: problem is that a lot of people go to the
Speaker 2: polls and they vote for the incumbents automatically, and they
Speaker 2: don't know who they're voting for. I mean, do you
Speaker 2: know who your state representative is? Do you know who
Speaker 2: your state senator is? Most of us know who our
Speaker 2: senators are and who our congressmen are, but we don't know.
Speaker 2: It's the government that is closest to you is the
Speaker 2: one that's most important.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So what we're talking about is the shelter crisis in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: and today Boston Globe sweeping changes the shelter policy. Mass
Speaker 2: reflects other states navigating immigration debate. And in the article
Speaker 2: in the Globe, which was really really well presented, I
Speaker 2: thought pretty fair article, Democratic leaders under fiscal and political
Speaker 2: pressure to act. Denver, which has had an influx of
Speaker 2: forty thousand migrants, closed the last of its hotel based
Speaker 2: shelters at the end of June is now limiting stays
Speaker 2: and it's remaining shelters to seventy two hours. Early in
Speaker 2: the spring, Chicago began evicting migrants after sixty days. In
Speaker 2: New York City, which has a similar right to shelter
Speaker 2: policy as Massachusetts. Now, remember New York City is part
Speaker 2: of New York State. Our right to shelter policy is
Speaker 2: across Massachusetts. A single adult in New York City can
Speaker 2: now stay in shelter for only thirty days, whereas migrants
Speaker 2: from ages eighteen to twenty three can stay for sixty.
Speaker 2: Migrant families without children can stay in New York shelters
Speaker 2: from up to sixty days, with an option to reapply
Speaker 2: without restrictions. The bottom line is, now that you have
Speaker 2: attracted all these folks to your state. And we're talking Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: we could be talking New York or Illinois or Colorado.
Speaker 2: Everyone was upset. If you recall when the governor of
Speaker 2: Texas decided to start to bust people. Remember when Governor
Speaker 2: DeSantis of Florida flew some folks up to Martha's Vineyard. Oh,
Speaker 2: Martha's Vineyard was quite welcoming for a little while, about
Speaker 2: thirty six hours and then they shipped everybody to to
Speaker 2: Cape Cod to Otis Airbase or Cape Cod Base Otis,
Speaker 2: whatever the hell they call it. Now it's an it's unsustainable,
Speaker 2: it's unsustainable. Let's keep rolling here with call six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty, six one seven, nine, three one ten
Speaker 2: thirty and six one seven, eight, eight, eight, eight, nine
Speaker 2: two nine, ten thirty. A lot of numbers there, but
Speaker 2: you can get through the easiest way right now. Six one, seven,
Speaker 2: nine three, one ten thirty. Let me go to Paul
Speaker 2: and need him. Paul, welcome back.
Speaker 4: How are you a good eating again? I wanted to
Speaker 4: ask the representative, but maybe you'll know the answer. As
Speaker 4: any legislator or anybody in Beacon Hill, filed legislation to
Speaker 4: modify or amend the current rite the shelter laws in Massachusetts. Yes,
Speaker 4: laws they changed. Modified.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, As a matter of fact, I wish I
Speaker 2: had gotten you on with Paul Frost. But the right
Speaker 2: to shelter law, there were several amendments that were filed
Speaker 2: by Republicans. They wanted to make sure that people could
Speaker 2: not just walk into the state and be eligible. You know,
Speaker 2: when this legislation was passed way back in nineteen eighty
Speaker 2: three was signed by Governor Kacas and was intended to
Speaker 2: help pregnant women, single moms who back in the day,
Speaker 2: you know, were homeless and we wanted to make sure
Speaker 2: they weren't living on the street. All of that and
Speaker 2: the law became so other books. We've had the write
Speaker 2: to shelter loss since nineteen eighty three. The crisis, the
Speaker 2: border crisis exploded in the last four years, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden we had people coming into the state
Speaker 2: who had a status. They weren't Massachusetts residents the day before,
Speaker 2: but once they were here, they were put into shelters.
Speaker 2: And now we have a system. This cost billion dollars
Speaker 2: a year, will cost a billion dollars or more next year,
Speaker 2: and now Governor Healy is looking at it and trying
Speaker 2: to impose some limitations. So that's file. But the Democratic
Speaker 2: legislature had no interest in considering any of them. They
Speaker 2: wanted to say that veterans should be first in line,
Speaker 2: that Massachusetts residents should be first in light. None of
Speaker 2: that was approved by the legislature, so it does.
Speaker 4: My question is my question is to file legislation so
Speaker 4: we don't have to take any more of these people
Speaker 4: in and Mariana represents to Mariano has been very weakness.
Speaker 4: You think he's kind of dodging the issue from what
Speaker 4: I'm hearing.
Speaker 2: Well, when you're the Speaker of the House in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: you basically can decide on your own what issues are discussed,
Speaker 2: which is what issues are referred to committees, what issues
Speaker 2: are voted on. It's then when they say the very
Speaker 2: you know, powerful Speaker of the House in Massachusetts, they are,
Speaker 2: They're there. It's a powerful uh, it's an absolutely powerful position.
Speaker 2: But there we're not going to go against the but
Speaker 2: Biden administration, which which opened the borders and said come one,
Speaker 2: come all for three and a half years, and now
Speaker 2: President Biden has trying to make the point that that
Speaker 2: they want to keep the boarder, that they want to
Speaker 2: close up the borders. They don't want to close up
Speaker 2: the borders. That's that's a lie.
Speaker 4: My final comment is this, I think it's great that
Speaker 4: you bring this issue up, and don't take my comment
Speaker 4: the wrong way. We've been talking about this for months.
Speaker 4: We're no further ahead tonight than we were a year ago.
Speaker 2: You're correct, You're absolutely correct, and it's frustrating to me.
Speaker 2: Paul Uh, it should be frustrating to the to the
Speaker 2: people of Massachusetts. We now have shelters that are overburdened.
Speaker 2: They don't know what to do with these folks. Many
Speaker 2: of them have been there now nine months. They're going
Speaker 2: to turn them out into the streets. They have not
Speaker 2: developed any skills. They did not bring skills here. The
Speaker 2: people who came here were were We're poor people, you know,
Speaker 2: God loved them. They needed help and and we were
Speaker 2: you know, we basically said said come on up to Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: They had signs on the border down there telling the
Speaker 2: people who are coming across the board that the place
Speaker 2: to go was Massachusetts. I mean, well, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: no doubt about that. No, Martha's Vineyard is a very
Speaker 2: special place. They didn't meet the migrants. All right, Paul,
Speaker 2: I'll let you run. pH Look, I'm frustrated too. I'm
Speaker 2: really frustrated. I would want the phones to be jumping
Speaker 2: off the hooks to look tonight, and I would want
Speaker 2: people to be talking about it. But what happens is
Speaker 2: the average person says, look, I don't live near a
Speaker 2: migrant shelter, or my kid is my kids are out
Speaker 2: of school. It doesn't impact them, but it does impact
Speaker 2: the quality of life in Massachusetts, and we're going to
Speaker 2: see productive people, more productive people leaving Massachusetts quietly going
Speaker 2: off to places like New Hampshire and Tennessee and Florida
Speaker 2: and South Carolina with the tax laws are a little
Speaker 2: bit better for them. It's sad. It's a sad state
Speaker 2: of affairs, to be really honest with you. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know how else to describe it. It was done,
Speaker 2: I'm sure, out of the goodness of their hearts. Once
Speaker 2: the President said open the borders. The Democrats here in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: what are they going to do criticize their own president? No,
Speaker 2: they they went along with the program. And Governor Healy
Speaker 2: has done I think. Hate to say this this way,
Speaker 2: but I think she's done a pretty good job under
Speaker 2: the circumstances. I don't think when she was running for
Speaker 2: governor of Massachusetts she anticipated that someday she was going
Speaker 2: to have the right the shelter law come back.
Speaker 5: And he inherited this. He inherited this, Yes, she did inherit,
Speaker 5: and let's see what she can do with it.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Paul, appreciate you call very much things
Speaker 2: talk to you soon. All right, let's keep rolling here,
Speaker 2: and I'm just gonna remind you that this is an
Speaker 2: important issue. And if you want your voice to be heard,
Speaker 2: here's the number six one seven, two ten thirty six
Speaker 2: one seven, nine thirty. If you're happy with how we're
Speaker 2: doing in Massachusetts and you think we've done a great
Speaker 2: job bringing in migrants putting them up in hotels costing
Speaker 2: three hundred dollars a room per night, I mean the
Speaker 2: hotel owners and the hotel chains that we've put people up,
Speaker 2: and they are big winners in this. They have done
Speaker 2: very very well. That cab company down on the Cape
Speaker 2: that got the six million dollar contract, they did very
Speaker 2: very well. There are winners and losers. The losers include
Speaker 2: Massachusetts taxpayers and Massachusetts residents. Now again, maybe you live
Speaker 2: in a community where there's no migrant hotel. Fine. Maybe
Speaker 2: you live in a community whether there are no kids
Speaker 2: moving into the school system unlike some of the communities,
Speaker 2: that's fine. However, However, just think about it. This is
Speaker 2: the quality it's a quality of life issue here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: We have made quality of life for migrants really comfortable, okay,
Speaker 2: and we have done it at the at the cost
Speaker 2: and at the price of longtime Massachusetts residence who conka
Speaker 2: shelter women. There are people living in their cars in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: longtime Massachusetts residents. There are people living on the streets
Speaker 2: of Massachusetts. There are people living and you know, you
Speaker 2: can say, well, you know there they they've created their
Speaker 2: own problems or whatever. They are Massachusetts residents. The folks
Speaker 2: who have come here have created their own problems as well.
Speaker 2: There were people, there were veterans who are living on
Speaker 2: the streets. You care about these? Probably not, you know,
Speaker 2: but if you do, give me a call. Six one seven,
Speaker 2: two four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one
Speaker 2: ten thirty. I think it's a really important issue. We
Speaker 2: talk about equity. Where's the equity for Massachusetts residents. Where's
Speaker 2: the equity for Massachusetts women who have called this program
Speaker 2: in are living in cars? The equity for veterans in Massachusetts?
Speaker 2: Where is their equity? Doesn't exist in Massachuset. It's these
Speaker 2: days back on Nightside. I hope you joined the conversation.
Speaker 2: I'd like to talk about this until eleven, and then
Speaker 2: at eleven we're going to do our I think it's
Speaker 2: now our fifth monthly Nightside Presidential poll.
Speaker 6: Uh.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Dawn on the South Shore. Don,
Speaker 2: you were next on Nightside. Thanks for checking in. How
Speaker 2: are you tonight, sir?
Speaker 3: How you doing you doing?
Speaker 7: Dan?
Speaker 2: I'm doing five Don, Thanks for asking Goad.
Speaker 3: I just had to call in kill listen. I live
Speaker 3: down on the Salary and they took the holiday inn
Speaker 3: at the industrial Park and a little hotel up the street.
Speaker 3: They filled it up. Nobody can use it. It's full
Speaker 3: of immigrants. Let me ask you a question. These people
Speaker 3: we voted in are so smart and they can take
Speaker 3: in all these people. Can they think ahead a little
Speaker 3: bit and say, hey, you guys want to stay here,
Speaker 3: come on downstairs and have a little school, teach your English,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna you know what, We're going to teach
Speaker 3: you a trade? Is there anybody got a brain up there.
Speaker 3: I mean, these people are in there.
Speaker 2: Well, no, there are some smart people up on Beacon Hill.
Speaker 2: I don't want to denigrate them all, but there's a
Speaker 2: lot of people up there who they view, you know,
Speaker 2: their their role to just get elected. And I keep
Speaker 2: talking to people. I know why you.
Speaker 3: Say it all the time. You just they go out
Speaker 3: in the when it's voting time. They go out and
Speaker 3: they shake hands and they go to the diners and
Speaker 3: all that. Yeah, I mean, won't I won't.
Speaker 2: Do it again, But it's true. It's true.
Speaker 3: People people come.
Speaker 5: Home and they see the wife and they'll saying, you know, Muriel,
Speaker 5: guess who I ran into today.
Speaker 2: You know, represented a kron for all. He's a heck
Speaker 2: of a good guy. Pat me in the way, and
Speaker 2: he asked me, how's a wife and kids? And I said,
Speaker 2: we're doing great?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean the the old holiday in down off
Speaker 3: of Bay Road is full. Okay. Now they have rooms
Speaker 3: downstairs where they could have big schools. They could teach
Speaker 3: these people. I mean, god forbid, if they got smart,
Speaker 3: got a job and paid their own way.
Speaker 2: Let's look at what Let's look at it like this.
Speaker 2: Let's assume don't did you? And I decided, uh, and
Speaker 2: we're going to take our families and we're gonna go
Speaker 2: to I don't know, you know, pick, you know, pick
Speaker 2: any country in the world. Romania can't do it. Right.
Speaker 2: We fly to Romania and we said, here we are.
Speaker 2: We need a hotel, we need three squares a day.
Speaker 2: We don't speak Romanian, but can you help us out?
Speaker 2: First of all, you know, they had a program like that,
Speaker 2: and then they said to us, well, we want you
Speaker 2: to learn Romanian. I'm gonna look at you and you're
Speaker 2: gonna look at me, say learn Romanian. How are we
Speaker 2: gonna learn?
Speaker 3: Yeah? But I mean, do you remember when, I mean,
Speaker 3: when you came into this country, you had to come
Speaker 3: in and get sponsored by a relative.
Speaker 2: And you.
Speaker 3: Know, I mean I got an eighth gird education. I
Speaker 3: went framing, I went and did the hard work. I
Speaker 3: did this, I did that. I made my way up.
Speaker 3: I'm seventy five now I'm outset. But I mean I
Speaker 3: did it. Not much of an education. Can we help
Speaker 3: these people instead of, you know, just shut the border
Speaker 3: down first of all and then take care of the
Speaker 3: way to that.
Speaker 2: I think it's too late for that. The board is
Speaker 2: wide open. It's been wide wide open. Thank you very much,
Speaker 2: kame Alan Harris. She did a great job. She's she's
Speaker 2: just did a fabulous job. I can't wait till she's president.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so glad. I'm so glad. I'm old. I
Speaker 3: don't have to worry about it, do you when this happened?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: No, we're good. We're good. My kids are smart. They
Speaker 3: just partty. That's it, Mike. My kids are fifty and
Speaker 3: they got good jobs, and they spend all their money
Speaker 3: and they just go out and have a good time.
Speaker 7: Well that's what we do.
Speaker 4: Me and my wife do.
Speaker 3: The same thing. But but I mean, you're going to
Speaker 3: be fine.
Speaker 2: But if you're somebody in your twenties right now and
Speaker 2: you think, I forget.
Speaker 3: About it, I don't under Why are these people in
Speaker 3: charge of the country, the states, the cities when they
Speaker 3: can't think, Like I mean, I'm not smart. I can say, hey,
Speaker 3: why don't we teach them a trade?
Speaker 4: What are we doing?
Speaker 3: We're putting them up for a woman board three square
Speaker 3: as a day. I mean, all right, you want to
Speaker 3: do that, come on downstairs. We're going to teach you
Speaker 3: how to do something well.
Speaker 2: First, of all, what do you do if the person says, no, no,
Speaker 2: I like it here, I like my room.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what it's it's cheaper to buy them.
Speaker 3: It's cheaper to buy them a ticket and take them out,
Speaker 3: put them on a plane.
Speaker 2: They're rid of politicians. They're importing voters, is what they're Oh,
Speaker 2: I understand that. Maybe it's not voters for this election,
Speaker 2: but it's voters for next election.
Speaker 3: And they, let me tell you something. I had to go.
Speaker 3: I had to prove I've had a license for fifty years.
Speaker 3: I went in to get my license renewed, and I
Speaker 3: showed them my license and and they looked at me like,
Speaker 3: that's really not you on the picture. I go, are
Speaker 3: you kidding? So I get them I get them a
Speaker 3: birth certificate and.
Speaker 8: All that's the word.
Speaker 2: That's the problem. You know what they said, that's the mistake.
Speaker 3: You know what they said, that's a copy. They said,
Speaker 3: it's a copy. I had to go to Broxton get
Speaker 3: an original birth certificate.
Speaker 2: How about that? Yeah, Well it could have been worse.
Speaker 2: They could have said to you, you have to go
Speaker 2: get the original doctor who delivered you back in nineteen
Speaker 2: forty nine. Of course, who's not alive anymore and get
Speaker 2: it signed out. They'll make it hard for you as
Speaker 2: an American citizen because they want people like you and
Speaker 2: me to get so discouraged and disgusted. Relieve, that's what
Speaker 2: they want. That's what they know.
Speaker 7: You know what it is.
Speaker 3: You know why they do that because they can there's
Speaker 3: nothing we can do about it.
Speaker 2: Well, no, they do it because it's all part of
Speaker 2: an overall strategy, is what it is. And it's like
Speaker 2: when I went down to get my license, redude, I
Speaker 2: wanted to get that that little federal seal in my
Speaker 2: license so I could fly on airplanes. Remember October twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: If you didn't get Lily, you wouldn't be able to
Speaker 2: go into federal buildings. You couldn't fly on airplanes unless
Speaker 2: you had a passport. Of course, I got a passport.
Speaker 2: I showed up with my passport, with my birds and certificate,
Speaker 2: my real estate bill. They said, well, well we need
Speaker 2: to see I had to go back and get I
Speaker 2: think it was a gas bill or something to.
Speaker 3: Prove I maybe it's something different than what you had.
Speaker 3: You know, you had something you didn't have what they want.
Speaker 3: But the thing is is you're a lawyer. You should
Speaker 3: have been able to cite some kind of a thing.
Speaker 2: Well, it isn't quite as simple as that, because what
Speaker 2: you're doing is you're going up to a registry office
Speaker 2: or you're going into your town hall. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 2: you're trying to talk. It's like talking to a broom closet.
Speaker 3: I mean, you can't do it.
Speaker 4: And then you'll say them.
Speaker 3: If you say anything, oh, then you're you know, then
Speaker 3: you're then you're really in trouble.
Speaker 2: Don vote for me, okay, and you will be free.
Speaker 2: Keep calling the show because we got to wake up
Speaker 2: the younger generation, because it gets it doesn't matter to
Speaker 2: people of our vintage.
Speaker 3: John, you know, you can't take time off from work,
Speaker 3: and I'll go into Boston and clog up the whole
Speaker 3: thing then because they're all too busy working.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, don talked to you soon. All right.
Speaker 2: If you think we're being silly here, we're not. We're
Speaker 2: telling you the truth. We'll we'll we'll take a break.
Speaker 2: Here's the newscast. Come on back on nightside. Uh we
Speaker 2: only one line opened six one thirty. Bring it back.
Speaker 2: If you like the way things are going here, please
Speaker 2: call and let us know that because I'd like to
Speaker 2: talk to somebody who is happy with how things are
Speaker 2: going here. I'm not. I hope maybe some of you are.
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Back to the calls. He's going to Hank in New Jersey. Hank,
Speaker 2: welcome back. How are you, Hank?
Speaker 7: I'm fine, Thank you for taking a call.
Speaker 2: You're welcome.
Speaker 7: You know, if you go back and watch a Bovy
Speaker 7: with Quasi botoa what on top of note your Dave
Speaker 7: and he held out site sanctuary. Sanctuary in those days,
Speaker 7: sanctuary was for one person to be protected by the church. Yes,
Speaker 7: but the Democrats twisted around that they could bring a
Speaker 7: thousand million people and make sanctuary cities, and you know what,
Speaker 7: they get kicked in the butt and it's good for them,
Speaker 7: you know. Of course, one thing Massachusetts doesn't need is
Speaker 7: more democratic voters. And as far as teaching these people
Speaker 7: how to work, it's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 7: The only way you come here.
Speaker 2: They're coming here with no skills, and we're turning them out.
Speaker 2: We've we've given them sanctuary. We're not really normally, look
Speaker 2: when they give them sanctuary. They stay there in the
Speaker 2: church as long as they can. The guy Julian Nissans,
Speaker 2: he had sanctuary over there in England for about fifteen years.
Speaker 2: We're given these people nine months sanctuary and say thanks
Speaker 2: very much. In Modesvinya they got eight they got thirty
Speaker 2: six hours of sanctuary, and then they were shipped over
Speaker 2: to scape God uh and the story over there. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Look, New Jersey's in just as bad shape.
Speaker 2: You've got a US senator who just resigned because finally.
Speaker 7: Finally realized he was a crook like the rest of
Speaker 7: the Democrats. If you want, if it, watch it. I
Speaker 7: got to bring this thing up about Trump and the
Speaker 7: FBI director saying that he thinks Trump got shot with
Speaker 7: a scrap scrap metal or what they call that piece
Speaker 7: of a bullet. And that's about the dumbest thing I
Speaker 7: ever heard the intelligent person say. First of all, at
Speaker 7: that distance, he was either using an armor proof bullet
Speaker 7: or a bullet with lead, and for him to for
Speaker 7: that thing to break up or would have to hit metal.
Speaker 7: The only thing that hit was his ear or unfortunately
Speaker 7: the people that got hurt or killed. So first of all,
Speaker 7: as the media is away with it, that's just a
Speaker 7: bunch of liars, and they get away with the time
Speaker 7: and time again.
Speaker 2: Well here's the thing. I don't care, wow, I all
Speaker 2: I know is this, he was in the line of fire.
Speaker 2: Some guy took eight shots at him. Okay, uh. If
Speaker 2: one of them had been on target, or if that
Speaker 2: one that did hit his ear had been a couple
Speaker 2: of inches to the right, he'd be dead. So even
Speaker 2: with that, can you imagine if if President Kennedy had
Speaker 2: survived the assassination, if someone had said, well, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, Oswald, wasn't that great a shot and it
Speaker 2: was just a little piece of shrapnel. I was appalled
Speaker 2: when I heard the FBI director say that yesterday. By
Speaker 2: the way, I'm not related to Christopher Ray. His last
Speaker 2: name is spelled w R A Y. And you know
Speaker 2: my feelings towards the FBI after what we did up
Speaker 2: here on the Salviati Lamoney case.
Speaker 4: Absolutely this it has.
Speaker 2: Been so polite, the size, it has been so politicized.
Speaker 2: He was so careful. Except but that was the point
Speaker 2: that and I assumed that question was asked of him
Speaker 2: by one of the Democratic members of that committee. I
Speaker 2: didn't see who asked him the question, but I would
Speaker 2: bet you a lot of money that it was a
Speaker 2: Democrat who asked him that. And it's almost as it
Speaker 2: almost looked just too planned. It just looked too planned.
Speaker 2: I had a woman the other night who called here
Speaker 2: and said, oh, it was a fake because they he
Speaker 2: didn't really get wounded, and they must have had a
Speaker 2: catchup packet, right I was.
Speaker 7: I heard that way. Well, look, so if you're that.
Speaker 2: If you're that woman, and that the FBI director who
Speaker 2: doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, and every
Speaker 2: all of his other answers were, well, it's an investigation,
Speaker 2: and we're looking at it. You saw the picture in
Speaker 2: the New York Times. It showed the contrail of the bullet.
Speaker 2: Literally you could see the picture was taken. It was
Speaker 2: a pull a surprise winning pick. Sure, the guy probably
Speaker 2: won't get a bullet serprise at this point, they'll probably
Speaker 2: get rid of that picture.
Speaker 5: It's unbelievable, Hank, It's unbelievable what's going on in this country.
Speaker 7: Thanks for taking them by, Cole. I have a good weekend,
Speaker 7: you too.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try. Thanks, Hank, appreciate it all right, let's
Speaker 2: keep rolling here. We're going to go next to him,
Speaker 2: Harriet in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, back a little closer to home. Hey, Harriet,
Speaker 2: how are you?
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 2: A little frustrated tonight, to be honest with you, but
Speaker 2: they're you know, sometimes it's frustrated. Getting frustrated is good,
Speaker 2: That is true.
Speaker 10: Well, I don't know, maybe I've got the wrong topic,
Speaker 10: but I thought we were talking about illegals and the homeless.
Speaker 2: But just absolutely, Hank, Hank brought up a different topic.
Speaker 2: And it's one that I wanted to comment on anyway,
Speaker 2: because I was surprised that the FBI director would open
Speaker 2: up that candid worms what difference does it make whether
Speaker 2: he was wounded by a bullet or a shrapnel? Guns?
Speaker 2: Gunshots were fired at a presidential candidate, and we we've
Speaker 2: had enough of that in this country after President Kennedy,
Speaker 2: Senator Kennedy, Doctor King, President Reagan, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Go right ahead, bring us bring us back on course.
Speaker 2: I'd appreciate it, Harry, go ahead.
Speaker 10: Well, anyway, if we we live in Twuckstury, which is
Speaker 10: right next to it, to Lowell, and they have a
Speaker 10: kind of illegals that are now house I don't know
Speaker 10: for how much longer in the conference center of UMass Lowell.
Speaker 2: Yes, I've actually stayed. I actually stayed at that conference
Speaker 2: center a few years ago when I made a presentation
Speaker 2: at the University of Lowell. And it's lovely, It's.
Speaker 3: Really it is.
Speaker 10: And anyway, it's just it's quite upsetting because there's so
Speaker 10: many homeless in Lowell that are going around and begging
Speaker 10: and living on the streets. And then you've got these
Speaker 10: people that aren't even citizens house in a place like that,
Speaker 10: and then we're paying for it. In Lowell, as you know,
Speaker 10: it's not a rich city, and to have their own
Speaker 10: residents out in the street is just disgusting.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope I remember when you vote, because if
Speaker 2: you keep voting the way, even not you personally, but
Speaker 2: if we keep voting the way we've been voting, we're
Speaker 2: going to only get more of this.
Speaker 10: That's all right, right, Well, I'm really I'm not too
Speaker 10: happy with the candidates that are running for president. On
Speaker 10: top of everything else. I don't know were the good people.
Speaker 10: We don't have the kendidates or the Reagans. I don't
Speaker 10: know the quality of the candidates or something else.
Speaker 2: Well, you do have Robert F. Kennedy Junior as a
Speaker 2: third party candidate of the presidential ballot. You don't have
Speaker 2: to vote for anybody. But I would also say vote no.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's seriously. What I'm saying is that I've
Speaker 2: chosen not to vote in the last couple of presidential elections.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm going to do this year.
Speaker 2: But the other thing, too, is that the elections that
Speaker 2: are important of the ballot are also the US Senate election,
Speaker 2: your congressional election, your House of Representatives, your state Senate elections,
Speaker 2: your city council elections, all of those elections. Matter of fact,
Speaker 2: the ones that are going to impact you or me
Speaker 2: are the elections that are closer to home. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you have more power. Your vote has more power
Speaker 2: at a local level than at a federal level. On
Speaker 2: a presidential election. There's about one hundred and seventy million
Speaker 2: Americans who will vote next November. You know, your vote,
Speaker 2: my vote doesn't count. Yeah, technically it counts. But it's.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 10: That's true that I didn't think of it that way,
Speaker 10: but it's true.
Speaker 2: You know, make sure you get out there and you'll
Speaker 2: learn who's running for state representative, and you get out
Speaker 2: and vote. There are so many elections where, particularly elections
Speaker 2: in non presidential years, where you'll see that the voter
Speaker 2: turnout was twenty two percent or something, and it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, come on, ye, people have died
Speaker 2: for that opportunity to vote. All Right, Harry, love you calls.
Speaker 2: Keep calling my show. Okay, please do I run to
Speaker 2: hear from you more. Thanks, Harriet, talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Have a great weekend. Enjoy the nice weather. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: one thing we complained about, is the weather.
Speaker 8: Thanks, it is true.
Speaker 2: Good night. Let's keep rolling here. We got to take
Speaker 2: a quick break. I got Kevin coming up. I got Gary,
Speaker 2: and I got Karen. We and we'll take a little
Speaker 2: get a couple more lines. If you want one more,
Speaker 2: call at six one and then one more at six one, seven,
Speaker 2: And after eleven we're going to do a presidential poll.
Speaker 2: We have a new presidential candidate. Uh Kamala Harris. Uh
Speaker 2: kamala Harris, kamala kamala is the correct pronunciation. We got
Speaker 2: to get that right. We'll be back on Nightside right
Speaker 2: after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray Live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Aright, here we go go to Karen in Wisconsin and Karen,
Speaker 2: welcome back. How are you.
Speaker 9: Hi? How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing just great tonight, Karen, hope you are as well.
Speaker 2: I hope your weather in Wisconsin's as nice as it
Speaker 2: is here in New England.
Speaker 9: It is right now, and I wish I could bring
Speaker 9: this to you, and I and I will bring it
Speaker 9: to you. But after tomorrow, watch out, it'll get it stormy,
Speaker 9: you know already. Okay, Okay, here, I want to know
Speaker 9: there are people in mass too. It's all over the world,
Speaker 9: you know, but country on disability. I don't know if
Speaker 9: there's welfare anymore. I just you know, s side people,
Speaker 9: people that are disabled in.
Speaker 2: Different ways, People who legitimately need help, is what you're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 9: And so there is, There are vouchers and nurse housing
Speaker 9: for things like that. So now what I want to
Speaker 9: know is this law when all of a sudden these
Speaker 9: people start flooding everybody into Massachusetts. Are those landlords and
Speaker 9: people that are taking vouchers? And are they kicking people
Speaker 9: out of homes?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: They What is happening in Massachusetts? Karen is real simple
Speaker 2: people have come here. You get it, no, but but
Speaker 2: there's no kicking. What happens is this, the state rights
Speaker 2: a huge check to a hotel. You have a hotel
Speaker 2: somewhere where there's let's say, three hundred rooms. The state says,
Speaker 2: we will guarantee, we will pay for every one of
Speaker 2: those rooms in your hotel for the next year, whether
Speaker 2: they're used or not, and you are to house people.
Speaker 2: And not only do they get top dollar, these are
Speaker 2: multi million dollar contracts with these hotels. There's a cab
Speaker 2: company on the Cape you're from Massachusetts, from the Cape
Speaker 2: that has the six million dollar contract, a six million
Speaker 2: dollar contract to provide cab fears for migrants. Do you
Speaker 2: know how many cab fears?
Speaker 9: I can't even believe this thing exists.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm telling you it exists. We've talked about it.
Speaker 2: So what happens the state? So you know, so let
Speaker 2: me explain it so you get it, okay. Basically, the
Speaker 2: state writes a big check to some hotels. Some of
Speaker 2: them a great hotel, you know, they're not the Ritz,
Speaker 2: but some of them are pretty decent hotels. Some of
Speaker 2: them aren't great, and they're guaranteed. These are hotels that
Speaker 2: are running at twenty and twenty five percent capacity, and
Speaker 2: now it's like manna from heaven. Never they get guaranteed
Speaker 2: for two or three years, every room is booked.
Speaker 3: My god, And.
Speaker 9: You can't get that lat to go away.
Speaker 2: But we can't even get that law to be amended.
Speaker 9: That's going to affect everybody in the future. But people
Speaker 9: that are already question.
Speaker 2: All right, Karon, I hate to do this to you,
Speaker 2: but I got three other calls I got to try
Speaker 2: to get to. Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 9: I hear it out.
Speaker 3: I'm sure, thank thank you much.
Speaker 2: Let's keep rolling here. I got to be tight with this, folks,
Speaker 2: so please help me out. Kevin in Pennsylvania, Go ahead, Kevin.
Speaker 6: Hey, Dan, longtime, no talk.
Speaker 2: Well that's not my fault, Kevin. You can call us
Speaker 2: any knock, go right ahead.
Speaker 6: I know, hey. I want to offer everybody something that
Speaker 6: they could look up and just get a little chuckle.
Speaker 6: You had mentioned earlier, and I've heard you talk about
Speaker 6: the right to shelter a lot many times that it
Speaker 6: was passed under Governor.
Speaker 2: Ducaucus nineteen eighty three, correct.
Speaker 6: Mister Docaucus ran or president? When what year would it
Speaker 6: have been? He ran for president. Well, I never saw
Speaker 6: it back then, but and I don't know how I
Speaker 6: stumbled upon it a few weeks back, but there was
Speaker 6: an old Saturday Night Live skit. John Lovettz plays Governor Ducaucus.
Speaker 6: And when you were talking to Hank just a little
Speaker 6: while ago, at the end of the call, you said,
Speaker 6: it's unbelievable what's going on. I think like that too.
Speaker 6: I think it's unbelievable just overall what's going on in
Speaker 6: the country. But Saturday Night Live knew all of this
Speaker 6: was coming back then. There's a skit. All you have
Speaker 6: to do is on the YouTube. Look for du Caucus
Speaker 6: after Dark is the title of the skit, and it's
Speaker 6: du Caucus. It's the cold open for Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 6: It opened the show and Phil Hard.
Speaker 2: We'll try to find it. And I'm sure someone my
Speaker 2: listeners are googling it right now as well. So Kevin,
Speaker 2: I time next time you call. Matter of fact, I
Speaker 2: just found it. It's right there, Ducaccas after Dark. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna look at it during the newscast. It's only nine minutes.
Speaker 6: Okay, Dan, good to talk to you, buddy, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Folks.
Speaker 2: Kevin suggested ducaccas after dark Saturday Night Live. Just it's
Speaker 2: right there for the for the taking. Next up, real quick,
Speaker 2: Dan and Norwell Massachusetts. Dan, go ahead, we gotta be quick, Dan,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 4: Oh hight Dan, this is.
Speaker 2: Oop. There goes Dan and Norwell, Massachusetts. Good. Try feel
Speaker 2: free some other time to stick with a round a
Speaker 2: little longer. Bob and Florida. Bob gonna get you in
Speaker 2: under the wire. Go right ahead, Bob.
Speaker 8: Okay, I was I listen to you about the cab
Speaker 8: drivers and everything in the cab contract. Yeah, we'll get
Speaker 8: this one. You pay the state of Massachusetts pay sixty
Speaker 8: four dollars per person per day. You multiply that by
Speaker 8: a year, and you know what your budget comes out to?
Speaker 8: Over eight billion dollars eight billion?
Speaker 2: Well, what do you what are you multiplying sixty four
Speaker 2: dollars the population of Massachusetts? Who number of people who
Speaker 2: have come?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 8: You can do the do the map? Sixty four dollars
Speaker 8: a day times three hundred and sixty five days a
Speaker 8: year times what times you know the twelve twelve months?
Speaker 2: Well no wait wait sec sixty four? What have you got?
Speaker 2: Two minutes? Robins? That what you're telling me? What's Okay, fine,
Speaker 2: so you're going to multiply sixty four dollars a day,
Speaker 2: like three hundred and sixty five days in a year.
Speaker 2: What what what are you talking?
Speaker 8: Are you multiplying by the populations?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: I can't even ask the question, So therefore you go
Speaker 2: right ahead, you got the phone, go right ahead.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you have been averaging three hundred and fifty five
Speaker 8: thousand immigrants or legal immigrants in Massachusetts, and you multiplied
Speaker 8: that by the sixty four dollars a day for each man,
Speaker 8: woman and child, times you know, times three hundred and
Speaker 8: sixty five days, to over eight billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Well, we've already spent two billions on Your math is
Speaker 2: probably right, but I think we're spending more than sixty
Speaker 2: four dollars a day because we're renting hotel rooms for
Speaker 2: some of these folks.
Speaker 8: Well yes, yes, I didn't include that. I didn't include that.
Speaker 2: Right, But also not all of them, not all of
Speaker 2: them who were here. They're they're getting a variety of benefits,
Speaker 2: none of which they've ever probably paid for because they
Speaker 2: haven't lived here for long. So hey, again, it's it's
Speaker 2: there's a price to bad government, and we're paying for
Speaker 2: it right now. Okay, thanks Bob. Where where are you
Speaker 2: calling from? In Florida? Have you ever called me before?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: No, I haven't.
Speaker 2: You haven't. We'll give you round of applause. Is the
Speaker 2: first time calling whereabouts in Florida? Bob? Come on, Rob,
Speaker 2: give us that applause. Let's throw rock. Stay on top
Speaker 2: of the game, A game all the way tonight, Rob,
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Bob. Where are you calling from?
Speaker 8: Thank p Charlotte?
Speaker 2: Yarlt Absolutely, I know, poor Charlotte have actually been there. Look,
Speaker 2: keep listening and call again. And yeah, I think you
Speaker 2: made sense about that. Because we've already spent two billion,
Speaker 2: we're well on the way to eight billion.
Speaker 8: Unlike the federal government, where they can print out money,
Speaker 8: the state has the balance and budget.
Speaker 2: You know, they're gonna cut other programs. That's what they're
Speaker 2: gonna do, Bob. They're gonna cut other programs. They're gonna
Speaker 2: cut programs for poor people. They're gonna cut programs for
Speaker 2: elderly people. They're gonna cut programs for senior citizens. They're
Speaker 2: gonna cut, cut, cut and cut until they cut cut
Speaker 2: an the.
Speaker 8: Gos the quality of life in our country.
Speaker 2: You got one deal, Bob. Great call Bob, Thank you
Speaker 2: very much. I'm sorry we had such a rough time
Speaker 2: communicating initially, but it'll go better in your next call.
Speaker 2: Continue to listen, continue to call. Thanks much.
Speaker 4: I do, I will.
Speaker 2: We're coming back. We've got our pole, our presidential poll.
Speaker 2: It is no longer by I Trump and Kennedy. It
Speaker 2: is now Harris Trump and Kennedy. Open up. Those phone
Speaker 2: lines were up six, one, seven, two, four, ten thirty
Speaker 2: six one seven, nine three one, ten thirty. We're coming back.
Speaker 2: We want to know, if the election we're held today,
Speaker 2: who are you voting for? Coming back